Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 02:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> I understood you think it is a bad idea but if yum already checks first 
> to see if there is a perfect match and then does a more fuzzy search, I 
> don't see a problem with it. There are people who do yum -y remove foo 
> and then blame yum. I think your rm -rf example is similar.
> 
> There is a real need to solve the problem that OP talks about. It has 
> bitten me more than once including precisely the example cited: Miro. I 
> am not sure what would be the best solution though. Debian does it by 
> enforcing lower case on all their packages IIRC.

Yes and that is what we should do - enforce lower case on all packages.

Policy problems should be handled in policy, not by adding crack to
software.

-sv